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Friday, 5 December 2014

And now for something completely different!!

Hi

As I seem to be totally mojoless with regards my beloved paints,inks and stamps I have been trying something completely different. With my recent outing that I involved my sewing machine I decided to explore how I could create my art using my sewing machine. So I thought I would share with you my first outing trying to draw with my sewing machine. Whilst it has learner flaws and I have learnt what not to do next time, I am quite pleased with it, and it has given me a starting point to develop this art form further.

This whole project started with a rubber stamp from one of my favourite stamp company Carabelle studio and this is "Visage Helena"

I stamped it out and scanned it into my PC enlarged it to A4 and printed it out.

I then traced it with a fabric tracing pencil and then transfered the image to stitch and tear.

I then laid the stitch and tear over my calico fabric and them followed the lines of the image with my sewing machine.

I then wanted to add some colour and added that using roving yarn and a felting tool. I was a bit limited for colour choice (need to buy some more colours) but as this was only a practice piece didn't think it really mattered but I quite like the colours I've used in the end, as I am always a sucker for pink. This has created so much texture for the hair and has made it very tactile.

I have then sewn in the words.

Well this was a great learning curve for me and I have leant a lot from it, if only what not to do.....
I would like to enter this into the latest challenge at Thats Crafty where the theme is "All about Face"

11 comments:

Amanda,I'm being totally honest here....I LOVE IT. The details are amazing,I could never do this,way too complicated for me! I love the image,this would make a really funky scatter cushion cover or an IPad cover. It's wonderful and it's different too,that's what art is all about.

Just had a thought....how about a fabric journal? Now that would be fun :)

About Me

Hi, my name is Amanda and I live near Southport in Lancashire with my partner, 2 dogs and 15 chickens. I have been paper crafting since 2009 where it started with a bit of a dabble, now I am totally addicted and get extremley frustrated that I just don't get enough time to play. My style of paper crafting is a bit like my choices in music, it just depends what mood I am in or who has inspired me.
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Love Amanda X